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Trisopterus Esmarkii Downloaded from orbit.dtu.dk on: Sep 24, 2021 Do Norway pout (Trisopterus esmarkii) die from spawning stress? Mortality of Norway pout in relation to growth, maturity and density in the North Sea, Skagerrak and Kattegat Nielsen, J. Rasmus; Lambert, G.; Bastardie, Francois; Sparholt, H.; Vinther, Morten Published in: ICES Journal of Marine Science Link to article, DOI: 10.1093/icesjms/fss001 Publication date: 2012 Document Version Publisher's PDF, also known as Version of record Link back to DTU Orbit Citation (APA): Nielsen, J. R., Lambert, G., Bastardie, F., Sparholt, H., & Vinther, M. (2012). Do Norway pout (Trisopterus esmarkii) die from spawning stress? Mortality of Norway pout in relation to growth, maturity and density in the North Sea, Skagerrak and Kattegat. ICES Journal of Marine Science, 69(2), 197-207. https://doi.org/10.1093/icesjms/fss001 General rights Copyright and moral rights for the publications made accessible in the public portal are retained by the authors and/or other copyright owners and it is a condition of accessing publications that users recognise and abide by the legal requirements associated with these rights. Users may download and print one copy of any publication from the public portal for the purpose of private study or research. You may not further distribute the material or use it for any profit-making activity or commercial gain You may freely distribute the URL identifying the publication in the public portal If you believe that this document breaches copyright please contact us providing details, and we will remove access to the work immediately and investigate your claim. ICES Journal of Marine Science ICES Journal of Marine Science (2012), 69(2), 197–207. doi:10.1093/icesjms/fss001 Do Norway pout (Trisopterus esmarkii) die from spawning stress? Mortality of Norway pout in relation to growth, sexual maturity, and density in the North Sea, Skagerrak, and Kattegat J. Rasmus Nielsen1*‡, Gwladys Lambert1‡, Francois Bastardie1, Henrik Sparholt2, and Morten Vinther1 1National Institute of Aquatic Resources (DTU-Aqua), Technical University of Denmark, Charlottenlund Castle, DK-2920 Charlottenlund, Denmark Downloaded from 2ICES, H. C. Andersens-Boulevard 44-46, DK-1553 Copenhagen V, Denmark *Corresponding author: tel: +45 35 88 33 81; fax: +45 35 88 33 33; e-mail: [email protected] Nielsen, J. R., Lambert, G., Bastardie, F., Sparholt, H., and Vinther, M. 2012. Do Norway pout (Trisopterus esmarkii) die from spawning stress? Mortality of Norway pout in relation to growth, sexual maturity, and density in the North Sea, Skagerrak, and Kattegat. – ICES Journal of http://icesjms.oxfordjournals.org/ Marine Science, 69: 197–207. Received 25 February 2011; accepted 29 December 2011. The mortality patterns of Norway pout (NP) are not well understood. It has been suggested that NP undergo heavy spawning mor- tality, and this paper summarizes and provides new evidence in support of this hypothesis. The very low–absent fishing activity in recent years provides a unique opportunity to analyse the natural life-history traits of cohorts in the NP stock in the North Sea. Based on the ICES trawl survey abundance indices, cohort mortality is found to significantly increase with age. We argue that this cannot be explained by selectiveness in the fishery, potential size-specific migrations out of the area, higher predation pressure on older individuals, or differences in survey catchability by NP age from before to after spawning and that it is higher in the main spawn- at DTU Library on February 21, 2012 ing areas than outside. We found that natural mortality (M) is significantly correlated with sexual maturity, sex, growth, and intra- specific stock density. All of this is consistent with a greater mortality occurring mainly from the first to the second quarter of the year, i.e. spawning mortality, which is discussed as being a major direct and indirect cause of stock mortality. Keywords: cohort analysis, density-dependence, growth, maturity, natural and fishing mortality, North Sea, Norway pout, population dynamics, spawning, spawning stress and mortality, Trisopterus esmarkii. Introduction analysis) model, and the SURBA (survey-based assessment) The North Sea–Skagerrak–Kattegat Norway pout (NP; model (ICES, 2004, 2006, 2008; Supplementary material). Trisopterus esmarkii) stock is an important food source for com- Despite these differences, constant values of natural mortality of mercially important fish species, such as cod (Gadus morhua), M ¼ 0.4 per quarter for all ages are still used in the ICES single- saithe (Pollachius virens), haddock (Melanogrammus aeglefinus), stock analytical assessment (ICES, 2010). mackerel (Scomber scombrus), and whiting (Merlangius merlan- Although mortality by predation of the NP stock decreases or gus). Therefore, this small, short-lived species is an important remains somewhat constant as fish grow older, based on docu- prey organism in the North Sea ecosystem (Sparholt et al., mentation from existing stomach sampling programmes and 2002a; ICES, 2008; Rindorf et al., 2010). In addition, the NP MSVPA analyses (Sparholt, 1994; ICES, 2006, 2008; Rindorf stock is usually a direct target of a significant small-meshed et al., 2010), total natural mortality increases with age (Sparholt fishery for reduction (industrial) purposes (ICES, 2007a, b, c, et al., 2002a, b). Total mortality is also substantially higher than 2010). the fishing mortality documented through the ICES single-stock The time-series of the NP stock mortality shows substantial dif- assessments (Sparholt et al., 2002a; ICES 2007a, b, c, 2008, ferences between natural mortality by age as estimated by Sparholt 2010). As a result, total mortality (Z) cannot be exclusively et al. (2002a), the MSVPA (multispecies virtual population explained by fishing activities and direct predation mortality; ‡Equal authorship. # 2012 International Council for the Exploration of the Sea. Published by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please email: [email protected] 198 J. R. Nielsen et al. there is another important source of natural mortality. The highest small gadoid species dies abruptly and at a relatively young age total mortality rates have been observed between the first (Q1) and from spawning stress (e.g. Ursin, 1963; Bailey and Kunzlik, 1984; second (Q2) quarters of the year, which correspond to the spawn- Lambert et al., 2009) and energy depletion, similar to some ing season (Sparholt et al., 2002b; Lambert et al., 2009). salmon species, capelin, anchovies, and gobies, or if there are Residual mortality, i.e. natural mortality caused by factors other other reasons for which they have a short lifespan. In the study than predation, is not well known or documented for fish in by Lambert et al. (2009), maturity and growth dynamics were general nor are the processes contributing to it (Baur et al., thoroughly investigated. In the present paper, we analyse the 2006; Bass et al., 2007; Golubev, 2009; Gislason et al., 2010; level of natural mortality in relation to maturity, sex, and growth Partridge, 2010). Several small, short-lived fish species have dynamics on quarterly and geographically disaggregated bases. adult natural mortalities of more than 0.6 that increase with age This is done by the use of long-term data time-series in an effort (e.g. Gislason et al., 2010). The increase in M with age during to understand the mechanisms behind the dynamics of mortality, the adult life stage is, however, not well investigated for fish including predation and fishing mortality. Lambert et al. (2009) because it is difficult to isolate M from fishing mortality (F), but and the present study have different objectives, but overlapping it has been documented for some stocks of small fish species documentation, and some figures from Lambert et al. (2009) (Beverton, 1963; Caputo et al., 2002; Cook, 2004; Terzibasi et al., have, therefore, been used in the present study. We tested three 2007; Golubev, 2009; Uriarte et al., 2010). For several fish null hypotheses: (i) H01: natural mortality is constant over years species, there is evidence of residual mortality as a result of (at a level of approximately M ¼ 1.6) and quarters (M ¼ 0.4) Downloaded from active gene-directed and age-determined apoptosis, senescence, and independent of age; (ii) H02: there is no relationship and diseases associated with spawning. For some short-lived fish between natural mortality and reproduction-specific life-history species, this is associated with truncated ontogeny, accelerated traits of NP, such as sex, maturity, or growth and, thus, mortality gonad maturation, and spawning events (e.g. Caputo et al., is decoupled from spawning; and (iii) H03: there is no density- 2002; Terzibasi et al., 2007). Mediterranean goby (Aphia minuta) dependence, neither intra- nor interspecific, in NP mortality. seems to have an endogeneous timer-inducing adult mortality im- http://icesjms.oxfordjournals.org/ mediately after the first spawning season by causing irreversible in- Material and methods testinal deterioration (Caputo et al., 2002). Age-dependent To complete the objectives of this study, extensive disaggregated degeneration or the dysfunction of several organs and age-related data were used, involving complex data compilation, manipula- pathological changes similar to those of mammals has been tion, and analyses (see also Lambert et al., 2009). The yearly abun- demonstrated for a variety of fish species (Woodhead, 1998; dance indices were computed from survey raw catch per unit effort Kishi et al., 2003; Reznick et al., 2006; Buston and Garcia, 2007). (cpue) data by fish length combined with raw sex–maturity age– The short lifespan of the fish Nothobranchius furzeri is associated length keys (SMALKs). Data were available from the ICES coordi- with explosive growth, accelerated sexual maturation, and the ex- nated International Bottom Trawl Survey (IBTS) for 1983–2006 pression of ageing-genes causing behavioural and histological covering the North Sea and Skagerrak–Kattegat (Anon., 2004). at DTU Library on February 21, 2012 changes (Terzibasi et al., 2007).
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